burial

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The act or process of burying.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A grave or place of sepulture; a tomb.
• noun The act of burying; specifically, the act of burying a deceased person; sepulture; interment; the act of depositing a dead body in any place where it is intended to remain.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun obsolete A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture.
• noun The act of burying; depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with attendant ceremonies; sepulture; interment.
• noun a form of coffin, usually of iron, made to close air-tight, for the preservation of a dead body.
• noun a piece of ground selected and set apart for a place of burials, and consecrated to such use by religious ceremonies.
• noun any place where burials are made.
• noun That portion of a liturgy which is read at an interment.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun The act of burying; interment

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave
• noun concealing something under the ground